NBC horse racing reporter Donna Brothers

Sports Media with Richard Deitsch

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News, Business News, Sports, Sports News

4.3 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2025

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Episode 501 of the Sports Media Podcast features Donna Brothers, who serves as a reporter on NBC Sports’ horse racing coverage, including the Triple Crown and the Breeders’ Cup World Championships. Brothers will be part of NBC's Kentucky Derby coverage on NBC and Peacock this Saturday at 2:30 p.m. ET. This is NBC's 25th presentation of the Derby. In this podcast, Brothers discusses how she prepares for the Derby and what that prep consists of during Derby week; her race day routine; how she chooses the horse that she will ride to interview jockeys; how she sees the favourite of the race, Journalism, and why she would try to beat him if betting; interviewing victorious jockeys after their horses won the Triple Crown; whether she bets; who is behind her in the pipeline as a horse racing reporter on horseback and more. You can subscribe to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the sports media podcast. I'm your host, Richard Dyche. My producer is Patrick Antonetti. One guest on this episode, but a woman who has, in my opinion, one of the more interesting jobs
0:21.9	when it comes to sports media and specifically sports television, Donna Brothers has served
0:28.5	as a reporter on NBC Sports's horse racing coverage since 2000. She works the Triple Crown
0:36.7	and all the Breed cup world championships the fascinating thing
0:41.9	about donald brothers is she does reporting on horseback so she is one of one essentially
0:47.1	when it comes to major major sporting events in the united states um you know when you see uh
0:53.2	when you see an NFL reporter on the sideline, they're not on a
0:56.5	horse.
0:57.3	They're on their feet.
0:58.7	What Donna does is far more challenging, in my opinion.
1:02.7	Of course, the Kentucky Derby.
1:04.6	That's why we have Don on this week.
1:05.8	It's coming up on Saturday, May 3rd.
1:08.7	Of course, NBC slash Peacock will have coverage of what's happening like the Oaks and stuff like that on the day before.
1:17.3	And then on Saturday, all day coverage between Peacock and NBC and the Kentucky Derby again, one of those sporting events where the demographics are about 50 50 50 or even sometimes more female men
1:30.2	which makes it an interesting network presentation and then again almost every year consistently
1:35.7	14 15 16 million viewers and in today's uh today's viewership world that's a great number
1:41.3	and with that i'm bringing Donna Brothers. Welcome to
1:44.6	the sports media podcast. Thanks, Richard. It's great to be here. You know, you mentioned all the
1:49.5	viewers that we have, and I often wonder how many of them only watch for maybe two and a half
1:53.9	minutes, because as you said, I am the reporter on horseback. I'm the first one to talk to the
1:59.3	winning jockey after the Kentucky Derby, and I can't tell you how many people think that that's the only thing that I do.
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